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Title: Short Course on Parallel ProgrammingDates: August 18- 20, 2014Location: This short course is offered online through EdX. To access the pre-recorded lectures:GO HERE

The 2014 Short Course on Parallel Programming ("boot camp") is intended to offer programmers a practical introduction to parallel programming techniques and tools on current parallel computers, including shared memory/multicore, GPU/manycore, distributed memory and cloud computing.

Abstract: To help parallel computing become mainstream, one of the main design considerations for multicore architectures should be support for programming productivity. This means designs that can deliver high performance and efficiency while relieving programmers and compiler writers from managing low-level tasks, and designs that help minimize the chance of parallel programming errors.

In this talk, I will present an overview of the ideas behind the Scalable and Flexible Bulk Architecture. The architecture has a set of novel techniques for programmability, while retaining scalability and flexibility. In particular, I will present Volition, the first hardware scheme that detects Sequential Consistency Violations (SCVs) in a relaxed-consistency machine precisely, in a scalable manner, and for an arbitrary number of processors in the cycle. Volition enhances programmability, while inducing negligible traffic and execution overhead. Moreover, I will present the scalable cache coherence protocols for the atomic block execution.

Bio: Xuehai Qian is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on multicore and parallel computer architecture, and programming models for parallelism. He received an MS in Computer Science from the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and a BS in Computer Engineering from Beihang University, Beijing.